Introduction: Issues of Public Policy in Algeria
Immediately after independence, the priorities of Algerian policy-makers were focused on a centralized planning process, piloted on a one-way, center-periphery model. Indeed, in a political system that quickly gave a key role to central administration, the political and economic systems were entirely run by central government, organized as a state bureaucracy. The aim was to consolidate economic independence by implementing a socialist model of development (Teulon and Bonet 2016) in which the public sector market would dominate the entire economy. This public approach was reflected in a socioeconomic program and national development plans which were a conventional means of agrarian reform and a policy of “industrializing industries,” applied without exception throughout the country. It also involved almost total responsibility for costs...
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Makhlouf, F., Errami, Y. (2017). Public Policy in Algeria. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2432-1
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